AWARDS

Distinguished Scholar Award: Click here for Guidelines
This award honors those persons who have contributed greatly to the study of communal societies past and present.

Donald E. Pitzer Distinguished Service Award: Click here for Guidelines
This award is named in honor of Dr. Donald E. Pitzer (University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana), who has served the CSA over the years as founder, board member, president, and executive director.  It recognizes those persons who have contributed greatly to the organization's work.

Donald Durnbaugh Starting Scholar Award:   Click here for Guidelines
This award is designed to encourage and recognize authors new to the field of communal studies.  Candidates need not have any organizational affiliation or academic connections; each paper will be judged on its own merit and its suitability for publication in the journal. 

Outstanding Contribution Award:  Click here for Guidelines
These awards will be given to individuals or groups who promote the understanding of historic/contemporary communal societies.  Awards will be given for two kinds of activity:

1.  Outstanding Publication Award.  An award for a single published work; an article or a book, popular or scholarly, that is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of communal societies, published within the previous two years.

2.  Outstanding Project Award.  An award for non-print projects: including but not limited to videos, websites, news broadcasts, archaeological excavations, museum exhibits or other contribution, completed within the previous two years. 

Awards are presented at the annual fall conferences.